Recent content by drhyne

I have a large female clown that somehow got a HUGE slice in her side last night. It is a vertical cut that covers about 3/4 of her side just behind the fins and goes clean to the spine. I have NO IDEA what could have done this to her. The injury does not appear to hinder movement much...

Update: Problems! With the warmer temperatures my hood temps increased to over 100 degrees. This caused the regulators in the panel to put out too much voltage. It caused a handful of the LEDs to burn and go out. The eBay vendor was nice enough to replace the burned out panel. Within 2...

Nothing good. My camera has no manual focus so everything I try to take is just my own reflection in the glass. The color is equivalent to only using actinic bulbs. Very blue but the colors on the corals look like a black light. They plenty of options for light combinations. You might want...

Hey, wadda ya want for under $100

Zen Lux or something is the manufacturer. These LEDs are not the typical low power ones you see on the 15w panels. They are they size of my thumb nail. As for supportinng corals, they work better than my old fixture with 2 - 200W halides and 2 - 55w CF's. One more note. I disconnected my...

This is the eBay store. I got the white-blue panel http://stores.ebay.com/Mix-Wholesale

I purchased 3 12x12 50w LED panels off eBay for $279. I decided to just take a chance. My halide and CF fixture was in need of new bulbs. Also, I had never had much luck with SPS corals like Acropora. The fixture is very cheaply made. Basically it is a PC board with a ton of LED float...

Funny you said that.... I started with dead rock and Chaeto in my sump. No live rock. The purpose of the grunge was to get all the critters that normally reside on live rock. Currently I have less than 2 lbs of live rock in my entire system. The tank is growing like mad. I just fraged out...

The problem with building these on your own is that the components cost a fortune. I found 3W LEDS for about $15 EACH! At that price I will just stick with my halide and buy a better chiller! Output measurement on these are goofy too. If you ask for a 20K LED then you will get a device that...

There are 2 fixtures that I am looking at. There is a panel that uses 32 1 watt LEDs for avout $150. There is another that uses 225 LEDS for a total of 50 or 55 watts for under $100. That one has a rated output of 1100 lumen at 2 very specific temperature ranges...

Has anyone looked at the new 50 or 55W panels that are on eBay. I am strongly considering it. My MH is aging and is due for replacement. I need more light. I am looking at getting 3 of the 50 watt panels for $269. They would totally cover the top of my 65g AGA and hopefully fill in where my...

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I have pretty much done exactly what you said. I found that removing it by hand and then freezing it with dry ice seems to work. The problem is the roots are in the screens for my overflow. I just can't get all of it. Pieces have rooted in the sump and are growing well down there. It...

Supposedly there are only 2 ways to control it. Chlorine and some strange sea slug. I am getting very concerned because this stuff can grow out from a single cell. It reproduces via a cloning type process. It could very well take over my overflow box and get into my circulation pump. The...

I had a small leaf of caulerpa come in on a coral frag. I plucked it. It still continued to grow. I snipped away the rock that the coral was attached to. I thought that got it. A few weeks later it came back. I threw away the coral frag. No frag, no problem, right.... Wrong! Now I have...